Generalized pipes, sendable managed types, simple IPC #4039
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r? @pcwalton
This is a module called
flatpipes
, which provides a generic pipe for transporting values that can be converted to bytes.It can do several cool things:
The primary motivation is to create a high-level interface for communicating with a sandbox. In particular, I want to create a compiler interface that supports either in-process or out-of-process builds. Most users, including our build system, will need a sandboxed compiler to recover from LLVM assertion failures and to encapsulate thread-unsafety.
As an example, the final commit includes a test case that treats another process as an actor over stdio.